Also peasants can get superior equipment such as travelling boots that is not available to new design troops and template troops.

This was also present in a small way in the pre-beta version. The empire peasant had 8 health, and every other unit had 5 health. It has been a running supplement to the bugfix mod.

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Has anyone tried deleting the specific value tags (say UnitStat_Constitution) in the Empire/Kingdom specific files, so that the 'CoreUnits.xml' default value is used instead?

Trying this now...

Edit: OK, here's what happened.  I deleted all Stat specific tags from CoreAmarianBaseUnits.xml. (Str, Con, etc.).  Then I bumped up some values in CoreUnitStats.xml.  Except for the predesigned Peasant and Pioneer, any new units I designed reflected the stat changes in CoreUnitStats.xml.  Both files have been saved to the Mods/Data folder of course.

This means that Pioneers and Peasants are being defined elsewhere.  Interestingly, I added 15 to attack and 13.3333 to defense in the coreunits.xml just for kicks.  The 15 attack is showing up, but the 13.3333 defense is not for said pioneers and peasants.  Designing other units does show the 13.3333 defense, btw.

I also did an INT bump (to 20), but didn't see that anywhere ingame... but I think I had the wrong race for my Sov in creation so I'll check that again.  Edit of Edit: Nope, starting INT in Sov creation for Amarians is still 10... not a big deal anyways...

So, essentially, it appears that if you wanted to do some code cleaning in those other files, (re)defining the core stats in each individual race file is unneccesary.  Of course, if your specific race was supposed to have higher strength than average, for example, you could always call that out in the specific race file by itself, otherwise it appears that the code is simply being 'redundant'.

OK, I've been able to 'Unify' the Con values of Pioneers and Peasants in relation to the other core units.

Details in the mod forum if you are interested.  Essentially all of the core units in the game will use the same basic Con value called out in the CoreUnitStats.xml file.  Sovs and NPCs will still retain their current Con values, btw.

So, if you want the various units to have a 5 Con as the default, this will allow you to change one value to do that.  Or if you want everyone to start with a 10 Con, again, change the default Con value, and voila!

The problem was that each race, as well as the kingdom versus empire units, were each calling out their specific Con values for these units.  But, since about 90% of the units had the same value anyways, this was just silly.  By removing the reduntant stats, the base Con value for the core units can be changed much more easily.

This will incidentally also allow you to 'go crazy', should you wish to play a Conan variant where everyone except the Heroes starts with a 25 Con..., but that is outside of the scope of this discussion...